[Talk-us] Operation Cowboy - Progress/Todo

[Matthias Meißer]

Hi Folks,

the organisation of "Operation Cowboy" seems to be nearly finished.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Operation_Cowboy

I guess we have enough target areas and thanks to Martjins Map Roulett 
enough ideas on how to find new tasks :) Thanks fly out to everybody who 
starts a mapping "cake"!

Thanks to Charlotte (Techlady) we had some *press releases* and it 
seemed to worked:
http://www.spatialsource.com.au/2012/11/20/article/OpenStreetMap-second-annual-map-a-thon-on-this-weekend/RNXTDSVBSV.html
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenStreetMap-launches-Operation-Cowboy-1751382.html

But if you like, you can try to still push the event, as it might be a 
good idea to bring attention of US IT media to the quality assurance 
topic and that we still looking for more mappers becausethere is still a 
lot of work to do in America. Sadly slashdot and raddit didn't work for 
me here :/

Another good thing would be *social media* so spreading to word to 
attract our global community (and others of course):
- https://twitter.com/opcowboy and #OPC2012
- Starting a facebook or google+ account anyone?
- Maintaining the IRC channel? Setup a bot?

Might be interesting, that this party, we __might__ get a nice animation 
by Derick Rethans. But hey, let's first do the job and enjoy the results 
afterwards ;)

bye,
Matthias